Welcome back to another installment of my short story Under. There are only a few pages left in the tale so let's get into it. The deep gnome and Vaelindra's crew got the drop on the shadow dragon Malythrak at first, until he dropped a mean shadow breath weapon on the lair. A dragon is typically at its strongest in his lair, a shadow dragon even more so because in this cloud of clinging darkness he can hide stealthily and take enemies by surprise with little effort (even pesky dwarves and elves). The svirfneblin however, has a trinket that's a callback to near the beginning of the tale. Let's see how this plays out. Enjoy!
That has to be a Gem of Seeing he's using. Unclear what the glowing sigil on the shoulder does, but that has to be a major boost to try and solo that dragon! Is he a Tattooed Monk?? Anyway, great action sequences.
ReplyDeleteBen: You are correct on the Gem of Seeing which he tested briefly on page 9. As for tattooed monk, maybe? If you know your Greyhawk Glyphs you'll know that is the "Strength" rune.
ReplyDeleteI can see there's 1 area of GH lore I'm missing, then, as indeed I am not familiar with the GH Glyphs. Nice to see them in use in any case.
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